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Each Has Their Own Privileges

963.5Question: Why did the Creator make the qualities of Israel weaker than the qualities of the 70 nations of the world?

Answer: It is in order for us to turn to Him and ask for correction.

Question: Couldn’t they have been made on equal terms so that there would be some choice?

Answer: I don’t see much difference between Israel and other nations on the earthly degree. This difference is clearly expressed only in spirituality.

There may be a difference in our world, but you can’t say that someone is weaker or worse. It’s not important. Every nation has its own privileges.
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From the 1st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/4/23, Writings of Rabash “The Spies“

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For the Laws of the Torah to Come to Life in Us

933Question: We once received the Torah on Mount Sinai, and after the destruction of the Second Temple we lost it. Can the same thing happen now? How do we not lose the Torah?

Answer: It was not the loss of the Torah, but the shattering of the common soul.

This happened because we were using the laws of the Torah incorrectly. But as soon as we unite, these laws will come to life within us again.
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From the 3rd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/4/23, Writings of Baal HaSulam “The Arvut [Mutual Guarantee]“

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The Creator Has No Preferences

630.2Question: The Creator sent the Torah to all the people of Israel. Why did He open the way to Him only to Kabbalists?

Answer: The Creator has done everything so that anyone who wants to can approach Him.

If we don’t understand this now, we will eventually find out that He has no preference for one person over another, a man over a woman, one nation over another, and so on. Otherwise, it would not be the Torah, but something invented by people.

Believe me, the more you reveal the universe and everything that the Creator has created, the more you will be convinced that there are no preferences, no cronyism, nothing.

It all depends on the person himself who advances only in accordance with his efforts. So good luck to you in approaching the Creator and making sure that He treats everyone exactly the same.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/17/23, Writings of Baal HaSulam “What Is Support in the Torah, in the Work?”

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What Is the Difference between Knesset Israel and Holy Shechina?

934Question: Rabash’s article “The Life of Sarah” talks about the inner work of a person when he conquers the nations of the world within himself and wants to be Israel.

It seems that all this is said about the unity of all the people because we are talking about the Knesset Israel. Does the correction go from one to all?

Answer: Ten is the minimum necessary to reveal the Creator and the spiritual world. Next comes an even larger assembly called the Knesset Israel. “Knesset” comes from the word “Kinus“—assembly, to gather. Israel is all those striving toward the Creator. Therefore, there is a group, a ten, or many people.

Question: How is Knesset Israel different from the Holy Shechina?

Answer: Israel is every person regardless of what society, state, people, or nationality he belongs to. If he strives to reveal the Creator, he is called Israel (Yashar El—straight to the Creator).

The Holy Shechina is the community of all people striving to unite with each other to create a place for the Creator where He can be revealed.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/11/23, Writings of Rabash “The Life of Sarah“

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External and Internal Parts of the World

177.06Question: What are the internal and external parts of the world?

Answer: The internal is desires, and the external is their fulfillment. But it also happens in a different way.

Question: How does it take such a form when the people of the world are called the external part of the world and Israel is the internal?

Answer: The internal part is always more important, and the external part is its consequence. Therefore, Israel, being responsible for filling the world with the upper light, is called the internal part, and the people who receive this light are called the external part.

Question: What does it mean we are responsible for filling the world?

Answer: Depending on how we behave, what desire we raise to the Creator and ask Him to fill, the Creator fills that desire.

Question: Does the fact that I raise some kind of desire to the Creator affect the world and fill it?

Answer: Certainly. And that is what every person in the world should do. It is just that their desires are very small.
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From the 3rd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/5/23, Writings of Baal HaSulam “A Handmaid Who Is Heir to Her Mistress“

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Material Contact

522.01Question: Usually, when people talk, they make sure to make eye contact. Why do we need to see a person?

Answer: Firstly, a person wants full contact, which is carried out through sight, hearing, smell, and touch. All this is part of our understanding of the subject with whom we are dealing. Therefore, it is advisable to fill yourself with impressions of him. This is our need.

Our common desire consists of Hochma, Bina, Zeir Anpin, Malchut and similar earthly properties: Hochma is vision, Bina is hearing, Zeir Anpin is smell, Malchut is taste and tactile sensations. Naturally, we want to gain all these feelings in order to get to know the interlocutor, to feel him. This is the aspiration of any person.

Ninety-nine percent of our perception of the world occurs through hearing and sight, Hochma and Bina. And tactile sensations, taste, and smell are inherent to us in a very limited range.

The highest information area for us is vision, i.e., against the light of Hochma spreading from the Creator to us. Therefore, it is natural that we are so dependent on it and pay special attention to it when in contact.

How do we usually choose a partner, a person, a spouse? Only through sight! But close your eyes, and you will see a completely different world, you will begin to perceive everything differently.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Limited Vision and Hearing” 11/29/11

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The Sin of the People of Israel and the Nations of the World

631.5Question: What is essentially called the sin of the people of Israel, and what is the sin of the nations of the world?

Answer: They are both egoism. But the egoism of the people of Israel is central and fundamental, and the egoism of the nations of the world is much smaller and not so dependent on each other.
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From the 1st part of the Daily Kabbalah lesson 11/5/23, Writings of Rabash “What Is, ‘A Ladder Is Set on the Earth, and Its Top Reaches Heaven,’ in the Work?“

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Punishment for the Rift in Society

294.2Question: What condition in Israel’s current war would you call victory? What is a victory for you?

Answer: It is a state where both sides raise their hands and agree not to fight anymore.

Comment: Many people say that one of the reasons for the current war was the split in Israeli society, which has been intensifying over the past year.

My Response: I think so too. This war can be called a punishment from above for our rift in society.
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From KabTV’s “Spiritual States” 10/29/23

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Open Your Heart to Everyone

944Question: We all are trying to unite above our differences. Our goal for the connections between us is to reveal the force of the Creator, love, and eternity. How can we convey all this to the whole world, to the people of Israel?

Answer: You must try to connect through your hearts, and then what is in your heart will flow into the others’ hearts. You will feel it. Just work on it as a group.

Question: What determines the volume of our internal space where everyone can be placed for internal unification?

Answer: It is the size of the heart. And to work effectively with this thought, you need to open your heart to everyone.

Let us all embrace together and ask the Creator to bring us closer in a tighter embrace. That is how we arrive at a quick final correction. Baal HaSulam writes that we are already in the last generation, the generation of Moshiach (Messiah). What should we do? Just wish in your heart for this to come true for everyone.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/4/23, Writings of Baal HaSulam “First Will Be the Correction of the World“

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Direct Relation

504Question: Can we say the nations of the world, with their actions, are forcing Israel to take the path of correction?

Answer: Yes, the peoples of the world, by their negative attitude toward Israel, force them to understand the whole world depends on them.

Question: In Baal HaSulam’s article, “First Will Be the Correction of the World,” he says when certain elements of the whole of Israel are corrected, the whole world will automatically be corrected. What does it mean?

Answer: We are talking about the connection between all people in the world. If we, those who study Kabbalah, those who are connected with the Creator through study and connection with each other, wish to correct ourselves and ascend to the Creator, then in the measure of our correction, the whole world will come to unity and ascend to the Creator.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/4/23, Writings of Baal HaSulam “First Will Be the Correction of the World“

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